# What's the most interesting car you saw today? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 21, 2014, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889 "2014-05-21T02:35:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 23
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/442 "2015-03-05T22:40:31Z")
2014 Bentley Continental GT Speed Convertible - driving in a snowstorm outside of Boston. The top was closed. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/443 "2015-03-06T03:04:21Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > They’ve never really made anything else that looks like the Enzo. And they don’t building racing cars except for F1 cars (and a couple of road car conversions.) > > Was it moving? I think the FXX looks like the Enzo, but I’m not certaint’s road legal. There’s also a Maserati version of the Enzo - coulda been that. I bought a motorcycle hauler this week (small pickup) and the seller had a first-generation Bronco; it was in “project” condition, but I haven’t seen one since the 80s. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2015, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/444 "2015-03-06T07:19:54Z")
> [@epbrown01](#): > > … the seller had a first-generation Bronco; it was in “project” condition, but I haven’t seen one since the 80s. They’re occasionally seen here in the no-snow no-salt SF Bay Area. They’re treasured by off-roaders. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/445 "2015-03-08T03:49:49Z")
Yesterday on the way home from work, I saw a Maserati, a Tesla, and a couple of race cars. They were being brought to the Convention Center for the annual Auto Show. Why they always bring them in just in time to snarl up rush hour I’ll never know but I used to run a booth at the show and it would happen back then too. I love that kind of eye candy. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/446 "2015-03-08T07:07:15Z")
I saw the most BEAUTIFUL thing ever today in a MacDonald’s car park in a regional Victorian town. And for the life of me, I can’t find a pic of it (maybe someone with better google-fu or car knowledge can help??). It was a Chrysler Century Motorcoach, and looked to be about 40-odd years old. Fully restored, it was a mix of light brown and beige, with white-walled tyres and even had beige venetian blinds on it’s many windows! OMG…I nearly wet myself! Please help me find a pic, please?? :o ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2015, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/447 "2015-03-08T17:53:35Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > They’re occasionally seen here in the no-snow no-salt SF Bay Area. They’re treasured by off-roaders. It’s amazing to see nice ones going for over $40k. I knew the Defender and early Toyota FJ have quite a following now, and I’ve read some company rebuilds old Wranglers for crazy money, but I didn’t know the Bronco and K5 Blazer were up there. One day my old Dodge Dakota will be sought-after, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/448 "2015-03-09T03:02:57Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > I saw the most BEAUTIFUL thing ever today in a MacDonald’s car park in a regional Victorian town. > > And for the life of me, I can’t find a pic of it (maybe someone with better google-fu or car knowledge can help??). It was a Chrysler Century Motorcoach, and looked to be about 40-odd years old. Fully restored, it was a mix of light brown and beige, with white-walled tyres and even had beige venetian blinds on it’s many windows! > > OMG…I nearly wet myself! Please help me find a pic, please?? :o Oh dear. That’s going to be a bit tough because the name Century may have been used in Australia only. Cars are often given different names here in Amerikay than elsewhere. I’ll ask my car buff group about it. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2015, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/449 "2015-03-09T03:09:07Z")
We have the Buick Century here, might it have been a Buick? ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2015, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/450 "2015-03-15T20:42:53Z")
This game isn’t even fair when you’re in Los Angeles. We are up here for the weekend hanging out with a friend, and yesterday we went to the Getty Museum. We drove out on Sunset Boulevard, and the luxury and exotic cars were too numerous to keep track of. More Bentleys, Rolls Royces, and Maseratis than you’d see in a month in most places. A couple of Ferrari 458s, a Ferrari California, a Lamborghini Aventador and a Gallardo, an Audi R8, and plenty of Porsches, including a GT3. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/451 "2015-03-15T21:07:02Z")
I was driving along I-10 last week and I saw a [Kwik e Mart](http://metro.co.uk/2015/03/05/sxsw-2015-theres-a-simpsons-kwik-e-mart-van-and-its-touring-squishees-for-everyone-5090877/). Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/452 "2015-03-16T00:16:17Z")
TD, it counts. So does the Weinermobile if it isn’t in a parade but just out on the highway. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2015, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/453 "2015-03-16T01:45:05Z")
A very cool [1969 Alfa Romeo Spider 1750](http://www.stelvio.dk/content_images/galleries/arspider1750duetto69/D7K_0390.JPG) at the local art museum. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2015, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/454 "2015-03-16T02:06:51Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > A very cool [1969 Alfa Romeo Spider 1750](http://www.stelvio.dk/content_images/galleries/arspider1750duetto69/D7K_0390.JPG) at the local art museum. That’s _The Graduate_ car, the Duetto, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![FuriousGeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecae2f/32.png) [@FuriousGeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuriousGeorge)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/455 "2015-03-16T02:12:45Z")
Watched a guy in a gorgeous red Ferrari struggle to get through the gears and I don’t think ever get it up over 15 mph. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2015, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/456 "2015-03-16T03:27:07Z")
These three tied as most interesting. [1962 Ferrari 250 GTO](http://imgur.com/9xe43yi) [1957 Aston Martin DBR2/2 & 1932 Alfa Romeo P3](http://imgur.com/OQoDl4N) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/457 "2015-03-16T14:49:54Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > That’s _The Graduate_ car, the Duetto, isn’t it? _The Graduate_ was made in 1967; I’m assuming the car was a 1967 Alfa. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2015, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/458 "2015-03-21T05:34:08Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > _The Graduate_ was made in 1967; I’m assuming the car was a 1967 Alfa. Yeah, 1967. Thanks for that. Today I saw a Lotus Esprit. I haven’t seen one in a long time, and maybe it’s because I now drive a Jeep Grand Cherokee and sit taller, but boy that is one low LOW car! When I saw it I actually forgot the name of the car, although I knew it was a Lotus. Searching on Lotus James Bond car quickly found the Esprit! ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/459 "2015-03-30T17:23:22Z")
On a walk in the neighborhood I spotted a car that had a cover on it all winter, now removed. It was a 72 or 73 Dodge Dart Swinger 4-door, in brown. We never owned one growing up but our neighbors did, fun little car. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/460 "2015-03-31T00:48:55Z")
A 1966 Mercedes-Benz W110 200, [.jpg"]a “fintail” one, like this]([http://www.autopaedia.com/auta/Mercedes-Benz/Mercedes-Benz%20W110/Mercedes-Benz%20W110%20(E-Klasse)%202nd%20series%201965-1968%20(1966%20200)%20(01)%20](http://www.autopaedia.com/auta/Mercedes-Benz/Mercedes-Benz%20W110/Mercedes-Benz%20W110%20(E-Klasse)%202nd%20series%201965-1968%20(1966%20200)%20(01)%20)[CA1). ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2015, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889/461 "2015-03-31T02:30:35Z")
Yesterday, sitting in a patio at a restaurant, Mrs. SMV and I saw… well, I don’t know quite _what_ we saw. It was a coupe, and at first I thought it was a Porsche 911. But the hood and the front were…sharper, if that makes sense. When the light changed and it went by, I spotted “Ferrari” on the back. Searching Google, it seems it may have been a [Daytona](http://www.wallpaperup.com/uploads/wallpapers/2013/08/17/134860/ad258a50a72c74f2993e99e5960956f9.jpg); but it looked a bit smaller. It was a Ferrari, anyway. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-interesting-car-you-saw-today/688889.md?page=24)